Switching to Mac

[ganzey]

Yeah... If it was up to me I would say no. My Acura dealer can't sue me for painting my car. Sony can't tell me where to put my new TV. I don't get it... how do software/hardware companies get away with telling us that we can't alter or mod what we buy, when we buy it? When you buy something, it's yours. You can't expect Apple to back you up when your system crashes because you decided to homebrew your system, but you should be able to do it anyways. Forget the bulls**t that says they're technically leasing their software to us. It's on a physical disk, and it's physically installed. You pay a one-time fee to use it, and that's it. It's not like a rental car where you take it back if you don't make a payment, it's an item.

Sorry for the rant but it makes me pretty upset.

i completely agree with the right to use the software for whatever. BUT IT DOES CLEARLY STATE THAT YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE IT ON NON APPLE HARDWARE AND BY CLICKING "I agree" at the eula screen(which is require to install) you are agreeing to not use it on non apple hardware.

 

[TrainTrackHack]

I don't get it... how do software/hardware companies get away with telling us that we can't alter or mod what we buy, when we buy it? When you buy something, it's yours.

In this case, no. The software maker will ALWAYS own the rights to the software, unless the rights are sold off - when you buy "software", you are really buying a licence to use it, but you don't actually own the software - just the licence, which tells you what you can and can't do with the software.

 

[mep916]

I'm not a big fan of these user licenses, and i don't care what you do with your computer, but in the interest of the forum and our rules, I'm gonna close this up. If you want to run a Mac OS on a PC, google it (which I'm sure has already been suggested).